The presidents of two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, are expected to meet for important negotiations. However, the meeting in jeopardy due to raging of the Russian Mafia, settled in America. Mafioso Rabinovich even interfere with the conversation of top secret hotline between the presidents. So begins a comedy, in which KGB agent Fyodor Sokolov and CIA agent Mary Star expose the Artist, a head of the Mafia, feigning of various Soviet leaders.

A loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov, includes excerpts from all of Shepitko's films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art. Elem Klimov's grief-stricken elegy Larisa examines the life of his late wife—the film director Larisa Shepitko—through a series of direct-address interviews and photomontages, set against a mournful visual-musical backdrop. Typically, Klimov films his subjects (which include himself and several of Shepitko's collaborators) within a stark, snow-covered forest, its tangled web of trees standing in as metaphorical representation of a perhaps inexpressible suffering, the result of Shepitko's premature death while filming her adaptation of Valentin Rasputin's novella Farewell to Matyora. Interweaving home movie footage with sequences from Shepitko's work (Maya Bulgakova's pensive plane crash reminiscence from Wings takes on several new layers of resonance in this context), Larisa's most powerful passage is its first: accompanied by the grandiose final music cue from Shepitko's You and I, Klimov dissolves between a series of personal photographs that encompass Larisa's entire life, from birth to death. This brief symphony of sorrow anticipates the cathartic reverse-motion climax of Klimov's Come and See, though by placing the scene first within Larisa's chronology, Klimov seems to be working against catharsis. The pain is clearly fresh, the wound still festering, and Klimov wants—above all—to capture how deep misery's knife has cut.

这是一部很特殊的战争题材电影，它真实地描写了德占区人民的悲惨遭遇和场面，以及人们面对突如其来的灾难的恐惧，反映了战争的真实面目。它既不同于《斯大林格勒保卫战》、《攻占柏林》这些正面战场的血肉横飞、排山倒海、摧枯拉朽，也不同与《这里的黎明静悄悄》、《星》所描写的局部战斗中体现的平凡悲壮，更不是战地浪漫曲，而是降临在平民百姓头上血淋淋的残酷。影片的事件和恐怖场面远超过任何一部描写德军集中营的电影，令人毛骨悚然，提醒胆小和心软者慎看。

拉丽莎（阿丽萨·弗雷因德利赫 Alisa Frejndlikh 饰）拥有非常美丽的外表，她本是衔着金汤匙出生的千金小姐，无奈家道中落，如今的一家人过着捉襟见肘的生活。拉丽莎有两个姐姐，她们都已经嫁为人妇，拉丽莎是母亲最后的希望，母亲想要她嫁给一个有钱人，如此她才能够再度过上富裕的日子。 拉丽莎爱上了名叫巴拉托夫（尼基塔·米哈尔科夫 Nikita Mikhalkov 饰），与此同时，一个邮政部门的小职员卡朗迪耶谢夫（安德烈·米亚赫科夫 Andrey Myagkov 饰）也在热烈的追求着拉丽莎。本来，拉丽莎和巴拉托夫之间感情发展的很顺利，哪知道天有不测风云，巴拉托夫破产了，之后，他选择了离开。痛苦之中，拉丽莎被卡朗迪耶谢夫趁虚而入，两人订了婚。

电影改编自尤里·帕霍莫夫的小说《岳父来了》

影片"Катя Измайлова"改编自列斯科夫的随笔《姆岭克斯县的马克白夫人》。 女作家的儿媳妇卡佳和作家别墅的帮工谢尔盖一见钟情。30岁的卡佳在谢尔盖身上找到了从未有过的激情，受情欲支配的她只要有机会就要和谢尔盖做爱。卡佳对工作的懈怠引起了婆婆的不满。卡佳为了扫清她和谢尔盖今后生活的障碍，婆婆生病时故意拖延时间使之丧命，然后和谢尔盖一起将自己的丈夫杀害掩埋。卡佳以为从此她就可以开始过幸福的生活了。但谢尔盖早有女友，他对卡佳也是另有图谋。得知真相的卡佳约谢尔盖和其女友一起进城，半途中，卡佳谎称汽车抛锚要谢尔盖修车，等谢尔盖下车后，卡佳发动汽车，将自己和谢尔盖的女友一同坠入河中摔死。 导演瓦·托多罗夫斯基是俄罗斯新生代导演中的佼佼者。或许出生于电影世家（其父是著名导演，曾执导电影《国际女郎》，其母是编剧及制片人）让他对镜头有一种天然的敏锐。新颖的视角，影调构图的个性设计赋予影片难得的精致与优雅，对场景和对白的精雕细琢给影片提供了深厚的底层铺垫。本片看似曲折、充满谋杀的剧情其实只是为了商业上的宣传，导演更注重叙事的结构。大气、精细、个性化似乎已经成为瓦·托多罗夫斯基影像作品的风格。